Chapter 439: Yan Yu is Alone
"Okay, okay, Jiang Fu, I'm not dead yet, but he's already thinking about me." Ling Xuan could not tell whether it was happy or angry in the voice.
Jiang Fu said calmly, "Your Majesty, don't be angry. You have many children, so it's normal for you to worry about them."
"Yes, I have many children..."
Shen Qing didn't hear the classic line and put away her expectant gaze, but now she was finally sure of the other party's identity. She said, "Are you from Prince Lingtai's residence?"
The housekeeper said unhappily, "You guys are quite perceptive!"
Finally I guessed his identity. Now you are scared, right? You are trembling and kneeling down to beg for mercy.
Shen Qing breathed a sigh of relief. Ling Yi was behind her. Although there was a big difference between being favored or not, that was for her parents. In front of outsiders, especially Jingzhao Yi, they were both princes, so there would not be too much bias.
After all, Ling Tai is not a legitimate son, and his status and position are the same as Ling Yi;
No matter how favored Concubine Li was, she was still just a concubine. As far as she knew, the empress had no children and did not register any princes under her own name. This was obviously a plan for the prince who would inherit the throne in the future - whoever she wanted to establish could be registered under the empress's name.
The rule in all dynasties is that if there is a legitimate son, the eldest son will be the heir, and if there is no legitimate son, the eldest son will be the heir. Everyone understands this process.
Seeing that there was no sound from the other side, the housekeeper glanced at the prince's dark face and asked with his neck stiff, "Don't think that you dare to go against us just because Ling Yi is behind you!
Let me be frank with you, Ling Yi is only fit to carry our prince's shoes!"
Shen Qing exclaimed, "You are a prince, and you need your brothers to carry your shoes? Your palace doesn't even have a maid or servant. Are you so short of people?"
The housekeeper's face darkened, and his tone changed: "I was just making an analogy! I don't really want him to carry shoes! There are many people who carry shoes for our prince! We don't need people in the palace!"
Shen Qing nodded and asked, "I always thought that princes were of noble status. After all, as long as they are not the legitimate sons of the queen, the rest of the family depends on their fathers. They are all the same anyway, right?"
Ling Tai's face looked extremely ugly.
He could hear that the woman was mocking him for being the same as Ling Yi!
Indeed, his mother was only a concubine, and there were four concubine positions, above which there was a noble concubine, and then the queen. Except for the queen, the rest of the princes were actually the same - at least in terms of succession to the throne.
But, "Of course it's different. Can being favored be the same as being unfavored? Can having grandparents' support be the same as not?"
Jiang Fu at the stairs broke out in a cold sweat again.
The emperor hates foreign relatives interfering in politics the most. Prince Lingtai has been constantly playing on the emperor's taboos.
Shen Qing nodded: "Indeed, what do you want to do now? If we don't admit our mistakes, will you execute us here or send us to Jingzhaoyi?"
When Ling Tai heard her ask so bluntly, he hesitated.
Executing him on the spot is definitely not an option. The capital is full of my father's spies. Killing someone is a serious matter, and my father will know about it in less than an hour.
Send him to Jingzhao Yi? He is a staunch royalist who will not participate in any struggle for the throne. If he goes there, he will definitely be impartial and nothing good will happen to him.
But, "Oh, why should I choose between these two? Today I'll let you know there's a third option!"
He looked at the people behind him and ordered, "Tie them all up and take them to the dungeon in the palace."
So what if the other side has more people and better skills?
Can the people who are holding him still protect this group of people?
At Ling Xuan's signal, Yan Yu walked down the stairs and said loudly, "Your Highness, I'm afraid this is inappropriate."
Ling Tai squinted his eyes and when he recognized that it was Yan Yu, his expression finally changed!
The commander-in-chief of the Imperial Guards, Yan Yu, why is he here!
He asked directly, "Why are you here?"
"I heard that this restaurant has a novel way of eating, so I brought someone here to try it. Is this also true for Your Highness?" Yan Yu said half-truthfully.
Ling Tai remembered something and sneered, "I remember you have a connection with the Huo family, right? By the way, was it the eldest daughter of the Huo family who was talking about marriage? But you were lowly and humble at the time, so they looked down on you?
Now the situation has changed, and she is no longer worthy of you, but why are you still rushing to do it? Not only are you helping the Huo family to make connections, but you are also helping the Huo family's relatives?"
Don’t think he doesn’t know that the crossbow blueprints delivered by the Huo family were made by Yan Yu!
Shen Qingjiang, Xiangbei and others looked at Yan Yu in surprise.
The eldest daughter of the Huo family? Is that Huo Bing?
No, that's not right. Ah Bing was from the Song family before, and changed his surname to Huo after being exiled. Besides, Yan Yu looked straight, and he might look young because he practiced martial arts, but if you look closely, you can see fine lines at the corners of his eyes.
At least in his thirties.
That’s Ah Bing’s mother, Huo Qinglin?
"Mom, is it because of the Huo family that he helps us?" Jiang Xiangbei exclaimed in a low voice.
Shen Qing was also surprised.
What surprised her was that Yan Yu would actually help the Huo family.
In the novels she'd read before, wouldn't men who were looked down upon seek revenge once they reached a high position? Like Song Shu, who had received all sorts of benefits and wasn't looked down upon yet, he'd already put himself in the shoes of the one being looked down upon.
Why didn’t Yan Yu say “Don’t bully the young man because he is poor”?
Especially since he had the strength to crush the Huo family before, not only did he not add insult to injury, he also helped them in times of need.
Yan Yu's face, which had always been calm, now turned gloomy.
He defended in a deep voice: "I was indeed humble in the beginning. It was natural for the Huo family not to marry the eldest daughter to me. Any normal parents would not marry me. What's wrong with them?
The prince will have a daughter in the future. Will he marry her to a lowly and poor boy? The prince does have respect for people.
He was a soldier under General Huo. The emperor was already wary of the Huo family at that time. If the eldest daughter married him, he would have no hope of promotion in his life.
He doesn't care whether he gets promoted or not, but with no hope of promotion, he will be a soldier all his life. Does he want the general's daughter to suffer the same hardship with him?
He could endure hardship, but he couldn't let her suffer with him.
She wanted to be the mistress of the house, to be treated like a noble woman, to have fine clothes and delicious food, and to attend all kinds of banquets, instead of living in the bitter and cold Blackwater City.
He could let go. If it weren't for Song Shu, he could have let go forever and lived out his life alone.
Ling Tai was completely choked.
This guy has really strange ideas!
He didn't hate or resent me, and instead tried his best to help me.
He sneered and said, "I didn't expect Commander Yan to be such a sentimental person. No wonder he's still unmarried. It was originally for the eldest daughter of the Huo family.
But it's a pity that not only was she divorced, she also has a child. You took over a second-hand junk? At this age, aren't you afraid of being laughed at by the whole capital? The Huo family can't afford to lose this person~"
Shen Qing: .....Damn, you’re such a talker!
If he wasn't a prince, he would have been beaten to death if he went out.
But this Yan Yu is really good, he is already a commander, he must have power and money, yet he is still alone...
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